Detailed history and photos of helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa 10 Register XM329 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy) ,Ministry of Defence MoD Aeroplane & Armaments Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) Track service timeline and current status.
A&AEE by Dec 1959, Westland by May 1960, Trials a/c with AUDE by Jan 1961 attached to 737Sq/(780). Reworked to production standard at Ilchester from Feb 1964. Aeroplane & Armaments Experimental Establishment
Westland Wessex HAS.1, c/n WA010, f/f:? del Royal Navy as XM329, 1960 to instructional airframe as A2609, unk perished Predannack 07/1997.
819Sq/533 by Aug 1965 737Sq/533-PO by Apr 1967 AES Arbroath by Feb 1968 Fleetlands store by Mar 1969 AES Lee-o-S Apr 1971 still as /533-PO (A2609), still May 1984 Predannack by Dec 1986 burnt by Jun 1993, gone by Jul 1997. 737 NAS
G I Airframe at RNAS Lee-on-Solent / HMS Daedalus, Air Engineering School (AES) Battle Damage Repair (BDR) seeing out her days before being burnt and scrapped
